On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Aljoša Mohorović <aljosa.mohorovic@gmail.com> wrote:

pip enables "pip install mypackage==dev" if link (with #egg=mypackage-dev) exists in long_description for pypi. are there some plans for an official way to do this?

No plans, but if you want this you could work on a proposal for d2 + PEP 345. I didn't look at the pip code for this, but if it works like easy_install, it looks for specific links in the (long_)description of the package that have an #egg=project-dev fragment. If found, it's used to download the dev version and install it. In Distutils2, I would rather have a specific metadata for this, rather than links to look for in the project description. I am not sure about the name, an initial thought would be: Development-Download-URL: A string containing the URL from which the development version of the distribution can be downloaded. (This means that the URL can't be something like ".../BeagleVote-latest.tgz", but instead must be ".../BeagleVote-0.45.tgz".) Note: the development version must be a source distribution. Regards Tarek

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